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Last Day To Apply for Export Igniter
Today is the last day for Fredericton companies to apply for the Export Igniter, a 12-week program to help companies sell effectively in foreign markets.
Organized by Ignite Fredericton and Planet Hatch, the program delivers comprehensive
SomaDetect Reveals Early Adopters
SomaDetect, an AgTech company that launched in Fredericton two years ago, has begun installations of its Version 2 in-line milk monitoring system at Cornell University, marking the beginning of its early adopter program.
The company, which is now
Volta Cohort Puts $150K into 6 Teams
The Volta Cohort program awarded a total of $150,000 to six companies on Wednesday night, handing out an extra $25,000 bundle due to the strength of the pitches.
In its third pitching event, the Volta Cohort advertised that it would invest as much
BlueLight Raises $3M, Led by CIC
Dental technology company BlueLight Analytics has closed a $3 million funding round and plans to use the money to launch a new data analytics product that can be installed in any dental office.
The Halifax company released a statement Wednesday
EhEye Sold for $3.2M-Plus in Stock
EhEye, the Saint John company that has developed video recognition software for public security, has been purchased by Patriot One Technologies of Toronto for more than $3.2 million in stock.
The companies announced Tuesday that Patriot One would
Energia Demo Day Set in Fredericton
Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, will hold the Demo Day for its second cohort Wednesday night at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.
Six companies will present at the event, which begins at 6 pm.
CVCA Data Shows Strength in NB
Atlantic Canada recorded almost twice the venture capital investment in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, powered by record funding in New Brunswick.
The Canadian Venture Capital Association on Monday released
Tranquility Tackles Founders’ Anxiety
After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.
TranquilityOnline aims
Hotspot Expands into Ontario
HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont.
The announcement Friday of a new service for metered and
Bahr-Gedalia In WXN Hall of Fame
Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth year in a row she has made the list and so has
SIA Aims To Help Hospital in Haiti
Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Simango is the Co-Founder and CEO of
Dal Doubles Computer Science Women
Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary.
Female enrolment numbers are now 144 percent higher than